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Welcome to the 2018 IFRWH Conference

Help Support Scholars!

The cost of attending the 12th IFRWH conference may make it difficult for some researchers whose proposals have been accepted to attend. This is particularly true for some scholars from universities in the Global South that may not have sufficient resources to cover their travel to North America. We are inviting scholars who would not be able to attend without a subvention to apply for assistance from the IFRWH. The IFRWH does not have its own travel funds, and must rely on donations to support travel by scholars in need of assistance. Please consider donating to our travel and registration subvention fund.

(1) If you would like to pay by credit card or bank debit, send an email to Dr. Sandra Dawson at execdir@theccwh.org to request a donation invoice.

(2) Mail a check (made out to Coordinating Council for Women in History with IFRWH in the memo line) to: Sandra Dawson, 6042 Blue Point Ct, Clarksville MD 21029. We can only accept US checks.

About the Federation

The International Federation for Research in Women's History/Federation Internationale Pour la Recherche en Histoire des Femmes was founded in April 1987. The first meeting of national committee representatives was held in 1989, in Bellagio, Italy, with the assistance of the Rockefeller Foundation. The inaugural officers of the IFRWH/FIRHF were: President - Ida Blom of the University of Bergen, Norway; Vice-president - Ruth Roach Pierson of the University of Toronto, Canada; and Secretary-treasurer - Karen Offen of Stanford University, USA.

The Aim of IFRWH/FIRHF is to encourage and coordinate research in all aspects of women's history at international level, by promoting exchange of information and publication and by arranging and assisting in arranging large-scale international conferences as well as more restricted and specialized meetings. National Committees serve as liaison between communities of researchers and the Federation.

Membership to IFRWH/FIRHF is primarily by affiliation of national committees of researchers in the field of women’s history.There is also an affiliated organisation membership. Individualls can also become corresponding members.For more information on membership, contact a member of the board. The IFRWH/FIRHF is an Affiliated International Organisation of the International Committee of Historical Sciences/Comité Internationale des Sciences Historiques. It hosts a conference during the meetings of the Congress. The last CISH was in Jinan in August 2015. The next one will be in Poznan, Poland in 2020.